Taylorcraft BC12-65
N33976 is a Taylorcraft BC12-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hinsdale, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 7, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 7, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- BC12-65 · all BC12-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2828
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A3BAAA (octal 50735252)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 7, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 7, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 7, 1956
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00422393
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Earls Matthews
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 356
Hinsdale, MT 59241-0356
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N33976, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Earls Matthews, an individual, certificate issued February 7, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 7, 1956, 15 years after the 1941 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2828 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N33976 according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N33976: Accident on April 13, 1997 at Plentywood, MT: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Taylorcraft BC12-65 · operated under 091
the pilot's inadequate recovery from a bounced landing and failure to maintain control of the airplane. Factors relating to the accident included: the pilot's lack of recent experience in the tailwheel aircraft, his inadequate recurrent training, and rough/uneven terrain adjacent to the landing runway.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA97LA090 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data